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...Mice. In Albuquerque, N. Mex., Willie Salas casually pocketed a three-foot bullsnake which was sunning itself on the running board of a parked car, announced to popeyed spectators: "I've got mice in my cellar...
...expected the Princeton crew, decisively beaten by Penn and Rutgers the week before, to come as near as it did to stealing the Crimson's three-foot lead for second place. At the same time that the Varsity's final sprint eked out its margin over the Tigers, it was narrowing the quarter-length of open water held by the Big Red at the end. M.I.T.'s last minute crab threw it more than 16 seconds behind the Harvard time...
...huge, super-secret "betatron"-which generates an X ray so powerful and dangerous that the entire apparatus must be enclosed in three-foot concrete walls-was completed a couple of years ago. Wartime security kept it hidden until last week. Even then, General Electric Co. did not tell quite all. But G.E. did give a fair description of how the great gadget works, and some broad hints about a few of the things that it will...
...three-foot wall recession will keep the pictures safely out of reach of the public...
...September 1942, the dour, thickset man was first seen around Mrs. Marianna Mayer's James Street lodginghouse. His 12-by-16-ft. room on the parlor floor contained a daybed, couch, wardrobe, desk and a three-foot shelf of romantic German novels. Each morning he left the house at 8:30 for his job in Newark's Downtown Club. There he worked as a bookkeeper, and did not have even the opportunities a bus boy had to overhear talk among the club's members-mostly business executives engaged in making ships, radars, airplane parts...